Photos: Sochi Olympic torch blasts into space

Gallery: Olympic torch blasts into space

People take photographs as Russia’s Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013. Two Russian astronauts will take the unlit torch on a space walk on November 9 before it returns back to Earth on November 11.